K12> [NetGold] CHILDREN: ACTIVITIES RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT: Children and Electronic Media

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:58:23 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] CHILDREN: ACTIVITIES RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT:
    Children and Electronic Media

CHILDREN: ACTIVITIES RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT: Children and Electronic
Media

Children and Electronic Media
<http://www.kff.org/content/2003/20031028/>

"Recent years have seen an explosion in electronic media marketed
directly at the very youngest children in our society, yet very little is
known about how these changes have played out in young people's lives. In
order to help understand the implications, the Foundation conducted a
national study of more than 1,000 parents of children ages six months
through six years. The findings are published in the report Zero to Six:
Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers."

>From this page one can access these report related links:

Report

Resource List: Biographies and Contact Information

News Release: New Study Finds Children Age Zero to Six Spend As Much Time
With TV, Computers, and Video Games As Playing Outside

Webcast

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News coverage of this report may be found in this article cited and
excerpted here. The complete article may be found at the link provided.

Study Links TV Habits to Reading Trouble
Tuesday October 28, 2003 4:16 PM
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH
Associated Press Writer
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3319800,00.html>

WASHINGTON (AP) - Very young children who live in homes where the
television is on most of the time may have more trouble learning how to
read than other kids their age, according to a study of media habits of
children up to 6 years old.

The report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Children's Digital Media
Centers, based on a survey of parents, also found that kids in the 6
months to 6-year-old age group spend about two hours a day watching
television, playing a video game or using a computer. That's roughly the
same amount of time they spend playing outdoors and three times as long as
they spend reading or being read to.

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``Watching TV is far inferior to playing with toys, being read to or
playing with adults or talking with parents,'' said Dr. Henry Shapiro,
chairman of developmental and behavior pediatrics at the American Academy
of Pediatrics. ``Watching TV without a parent is a junk experience,
especially for young children.''

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Here is some additional reading material on the topic of the impact of
electronic media and television on the reading skills of children.

The effect of interactive media on children's story memory.
Author: Ricci, Christine M.; Beal, Carole R.
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology
v. 94  no. 1 March 2002  p. 138-144

Kids don't read because they can't read.
Author: Walsh, David.
Source: The Education Digest
v. 67  no. 5  January 2002  p. 29-30

Why couch potatoes can't read.
Author: Walsh, David.
Source: Principal (Reston, Va.)
 v. 81  no. 2  November 2001  p. 46

A model for using television and video to motivate writing.
Author: Holbein, Marie F. Doan.; Bristor, Valerie J.; Yahya, Noorchaya.
Source: Reading Horizons
v. 41  no. 3 January/February 2001  p. 175-187

Learning to read from television: the effects of using captions and
narration.
Author: Linebarger, Deborah L.
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology
v. 93  no. 2  June 2001  p. 288-298

Early childhood television viewing and adolescent behavior: the recontact
study.
Author: Anderson, Daniel R.; Huston, Aletha C.; Schmitt, Kelly L.
Source:  Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
v. 66  no. 1   2001   p. 1-147

Parents' conceptions of kindergarten readiness: relationships with race,
ethnicity, and development.
Author: Diamond, Karen E.; Reagan, Amy J.; Bandyk, Jennifer E.
Source: The Journal of Educational Research (Washington, D.C.)
v. 94  no. 2  November/December 2000  p. 93-100

Television's impact on children's reading comprehension and decoding
skills: a 3-year panel study.
Author: Koolstra, Cees M.; Voort, T. H. A. van der.; Kamp, Leo J. Th. van
der.
Source: Reading Research Quarterly
v. 32  April/May/June 1997  p. 128-152

Experimental effects of radio and television distractors on children's
performance on mathematics and reading assignments.
Author: Cool, Valerie A.; Yarbrough, Donald B.; Patton, James E.
Source: The Journal of Experimental Education
v. 62  Spring 1994  p. 181-94

Television's impact on children's reading skills: a review of research.
Author: Beentjes, Johannes W. J.; Voort, T. H. A. van der.
Source: Reading 0Research Quarterly
v. 23  Fall 1988  p. 389-413

Longitudinal effects of television on children's leisure-time reading: a
test of three explanatory models.
Author: Koolstra, Cees M.; Voort, Tom H. A. van der.
Source: Human Communication Research
v. 23  September 1996  p. 4-35

I hope that those interested in this important topic will find these
resources useful.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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